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Myers-Briggs is a completely different level of woo. Sure, some people read too much into the types, but it can be useful to get (for example) extroverted managers to realize that not everyone sees team building exercises and Employee of the Month competitions as desirable.

Pretty sure no one has ever gone to jail because they were coded INTP.

Snake oil is probably a good keto food.

The legal system is based on swaying the opinions of twelve people who couldn't get out of jury duty.

There's nothing in the system designed to prevent pseudo-science or quackery, other than the relative argumentative skills of opposing advocates.

Bullshit with conviction often sounds more appealing than honest, equivocating science. This also is one of the biggest problems with democracy.

To me one of the most fascinating things about things like the Eocene polar environment would be how familiar, and yet oddly alien they would be.

For example, with lush forests growing on the Arctic islands, inhabited by flying lemurs and tapirs, the region still would have been above the Arctic circle and in total darkness for months of the year.

How do you think the plants and animals dealt with this tropical Arctic long night? Did they hibernate? Did the plants go dormant while animals survived on cached reserves?

Rich helps a lot too